Assembly for the touch-proof contacting of a bus bar system

Apparatus for the touch-safe contacting of a busbar system comprising multiple busbars, wherein the apparatus has a touch protection housing made of electrically insulating material comprising receptacles for busbars, which has a base having the receptacles and also a cover, which closes the receptacles and is optionally detachable from the base, having an installation side, wherein the apparatus furthermore has a multipole busbar adapter for the electrical contacting of the busbars, which is installed with an adapter housing on the installation side and for this purpose passes through the cover with at least one contact element in each case for every busbar to be electrically contacted, wherein the busbar adapter passes through the cover with retaining feet engaging behind the busbars, for which purpose the cover has a planar cover plate having a number of rows of regularly spaced-apart passage slots corresponding to the number of busbars to be contacted, wherein the retaining feet are formed as blades, with which they pass through the passage slots in the cover.